Migration and Race - Central and Eastern European Perspectives

This book brings together a range of established and emerging scholars of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) migration, race, whiteness and post- and decoloniality to explore these themes from/to and within Central and Eastern Europe.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Buses that come full circle: Ukrainian "whiteness", labour migrants and race on eastern margins 2. Reflections from the Borderlands: On hegemonic whiteness and the construction of Polish hostile environment 3. "We are here because..." Reading the postsocialist (back) into a migrant politics of presence 4. Perception and negotiation of the racialised class identity in the UK among young Lithuanian and Polish migrants 5. Migrating racialisations, making of Polishness and the production of whiteness: Roma and Gadje from Poland 6. Racialisation, ethnic competition and legacies of colonialism: Peripherally white workers' position in global racial hierarchies 7. From the East in the East? Young migrants from Poland in Central and Eastern Europe Epilogue: On Partial Privilege

About the author

Kasia Narkowicz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Law and Social Sciences, Middlesex University London, UK.
Anna Gawlewicz is Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Konrad P¿dziwiatr is a Professor in the Department of International Affairs at the Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, Poland.

Summary

This book brings together a range of established and emerging scholars of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) migration, race, whiteness and post- and decoloniality to explore these themes from/to and within Central and Eastern Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Kasia Gawlewicz Narkowicz
• Assisted by: Anna Gawlewicz (Editor), Kasia Narkowicz (Editor), Konrad Pędziwiatr (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032518152
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3251815-2
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Regions and Cities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Business & Economics / General, Eastern Europe, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, Colonialism & imperialism, Regional Studies, Political Economy, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, Human Geography, Development Studies